SCANDALS AT CNN - MAINSTREAM MEDIA IS BECOMING ABSURD

What if most of what we see on TV news channels is propaganda?

SCANDALS AT CNN

Think about the recent scandals that have rocked CNN. In one of these, one of their anchors was apparently caught admitting that the whole Russia/Trump connection was made up.

It seems like almost every story on CNN is not just anti Trump, but aggressively anti-Trump. To the point of absurdity. Almost as if they like the current relatively rational North Korean leader much more than Trump.

But apart from these issues, it is just hard for me to see how they can survive over the medium to long term. Why? Because they don't offer anything besides mindless pseudo intellectual rhetoric.

They cater exclusively for individuals taht INCERTO editor Nassim Taleb would call The Intellectual Yet Idiot. Taleb's influential article was published a little less than a year ago.

THE INTELLECTUAL YET IDIOT

In summary such individuals are characterized by the following:

Education: Almost always attend “elite universities,” such as the Ivy League or Oxbridge. NOTE: Most students at these schools are not IYIs, but a decent percentage qualify.
Industries: Tend to have experience mostly in academia, the government, “think tanks,” and the mainstream media.
Skin in the Game: None. They advocate for or against policies from which they never feel the negative effects, making such advocacy meaningless.
Media: Like The New Yorker and TED talks (ugh).

And, most importantly, the IYI never deadlifts - they never really start from nothing and create something original So it is for this reason that I immediately had a non-negative reaction to the news.

ITS ALL ABOUT THE BIAS

It really has nothing to do with "news" though The tail has been wagging the dog so long in the mainstream media, that most of what we consider to be news, is in fact nothing but propaganda anyway.

It is just part of our society. We feel uncomfortable with news outlets like Breitbart because the mainstream media has, along with creating news out of thin air, also succeeded in making us think that they are unbiased.

Which makes even more shocking the extent to which Trump's feud with the mainstream media, presumably because of a disagreement regarding the future of the show "The Apprentice", has fueled Trump Hate. CNN anchors grimace when the talk about Trump's latest "scandal". Unbiased people are not supposed to grimace.

Maybe they want us to think that, yes CNN like all others are of course unbiased, but this is so bad, that even an unbiased onlooker cannot help but feel offended/surprised/shocked.

Many people are going to think twice about believing what we see on CNN in future.

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